Tag or card holder



" ITED STATES ATENT rrrc CHARLES H. LITTLE, OF MELROSE, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE N. GREEN, OF STONEI-IAM, MASSACHUSETTS.

TAG OR CARD HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 547,957, dated October 15, 1895. Application filed March 8,1895. Serial No. 540.989. (No model.)

To all whom/it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. LITTLE, of Melrose, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tag or Card Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in tag or card holders; and it consists in certain novel features of construction and arrangement of parts, which will be hereinafter fully described in the specification, clearly illustrated in the drawings, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings and the characters marked thereon, which form a part of this specification, like characters designating like parts or features, as the case may be, wherever they occur.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved card-holder. Fig. 2 isa section thereof on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1, the rods 17 being indicated in dotted lines. Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2 looking in the direction of the arrow. Fig. 4 is a per spective view of the card-holder. Fig. 5 shows the holders mounted upon rods 6.

qWhileI do not wish to limit the use to which my improved holder can be put, yet I have designed it particularly to be used in connection with a machine or device of the character shown in the patent granted to Walter Paige, February 5, 1895, and assigned to George N. Green and Lizzie E. Paige, No. 533,664, for an adjustable list or index holder.

The card-holder is preferably made out of a single piece of metal by means of suitable dies, and consists of the side flanges a and a back portion a The side flanges a may be slightly inclined toward each other, if desired, in order to retain the card. Ears a are struck up from the back portion and pressed away from the body part of the card-holder,

forming openings at to receive rods 1) or any object upon which the holder is to be strung or attached. This is done by means of suitable dies, the metal being somewhat stretched in the operation,.as shown at Fig. 1. The article so constructed is cheap to manufacture and easy of manipulation, the portions a slipping down over the rods 6 and retaining the card-holder in place.

Bymanufacturing the card-holder as shown I am enabled to do it at a greatly-reduced cost.

with side flanges for the purpose of retaining the card and having means on the back of the card-holder for securing the same to any desired object or structure. This broad idea I do not consider as my invention; but I do .consider as my invention the specific structure and arrangement shown.

Having thus explained the nature of my invention and described a way of constructing and using the same, although without attempting to set forth all the forms in which it may be made or all the modes of its use, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A card or tag holder made ofa single piece of metal, comprising in its construction side flanges a, a back-portion a and integral ears a struck out from the back-portion and pressed away from the same, forming openings a substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 16th day of February, A. D. 1895.

CHARLES H. LITTLE. Witnesses:

E. BATGHELDER, ROLLIN ABELL.

I am aware it is old to provide a card-holder 

